good role model

In all honesty, I think beauty pagents are awful; debasing, degrading, sexist, objectifying, and I can keep going on and on.  I think they send young girls a bad message.  I think they give men an unrealistic ideal for a woman, whose expectation will never be met.

Which is why I have even surprised myself by sharing with you a contestant for Miss USA.  Meet Amal Bennett-Judge.

She has hopes of being the next Miss USA.  Unlike many of her contemporaries that are on the campaign trail against gay marriage, Miss Bennett-Judge is on the green trail… and she does it all wearing used clothing!

I think this is a woman that can speak to what the youth of America are concerned with.  She may have a way of doing it that I might not fully agree with, but her message is fantastic.  Maybe this is a case of the ends justifying the means.

by Jennifer Jaykins